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The Front

Critics' Rating:

Release Year:
1976

MPAA Rating:PG

Genre:Comedy Drama

Director:Martin Ritt

In the 1950s, restaurant cashier Howard Prince is apathetic toward the politics around him. When a blacklisted screenwriter asks Howard to sell a script under his own name, Howard sees an opportunity to make a profit and becomes a ''front'' for several blacklisted writers. But after he witnesses the social destruction of a comedian, Howard sees the corruption of McCarthyism and decides to do something to make a difference.

Cast
:

Woody Allen

Howard Prince

Zero Mostel

Hecky Brown

Herschel Bernardi

Phil Sussman

Michael Murphy

Alfred Miller

Andrea Marcovicci

Florence Barrett

Remak Ramsay

Hennessey

Marvin Lichterman

Myer Prince

Lloyd Gough

Delaney

David Margulies

Phelps

Joshua Shelley

Sam

Danny Aiello

Danny LaGattuta

Scott McKay

Hampton

Julie Garfield

Margo

Charles Kimbrough

Committee Counselor

Josef Sommer

Committee Chairman

Producers
:

Martin Ritt

Writers
:

Walter Bernstein

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